Originally Posted by
megan
Not uncommon, the worse I've seen personally was on a Shorts 360 at Miami during start/taxi, as bad as the video. Our air force had a new on type pilot eject from a Sabre because mist was coming from the ducts and he thought it was smoke from a fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl7-8NXWa8U
Many years ago, on my first trip out to an oil platform as a rotorcraft student in a 206L, I had a moment of terror when my peripheral vision caught sight of smoke streaming out of the overhead just behind me. Were we about to go down in the Gulf of Mexico 80 miles from shore?
It was, of course, just condensed vapor from the A/C ducts. Scared the heck out of me for a second.
